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  r78351 | r.david.murray | 2010-02-22 19:24:49 -0500 (Mon, 22 Feb 2010) | 5 lines

  Issue 6292: for the moment at least, the test suite passes if run
  with -OO.  Tests requiring docstrings are skipped.  Patch by
  Brian Curtin, thanks to Matias Torchinsky for helping review and
  improve the patch.
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diff --git a/Lib/test/test_unittest.py b/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
index 8627312..75b9d0c 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_unittest.py
@@ -2051,6 +2051,8 @@
                 'testGetDescriptionWithoutDocstring (' + __name__ +
                 '.Test_TestResult)')
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def testGetDescriptionWithOneLineDocstring(self):
         """Tests getDescription() for a method with a docstring."""
         result = unittest.TextTestResult(None, True, 1)
@@ -2060,6 +2062,8 @@
                 '(' + __name__ + '.Test_TestResult)\n'
                 'Tests getDescription() for a method with a docstring.'))
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def testGetDescriptionWithMultiLineDocstring(self):
         """Tests getDescription() for a method with a longer docstring.
         The second line of the docstring.
@@ -2489,12 +2493,16 @@
     def testShortDescriptionWithoutDocstring(self):
         self.assertIsNone(self.shortDescription())
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def testShortDescriptionWithOneLineDocstring(self):
         """Tests shortDescription() for a method with a docstring."""
         self.assertEqual(
                 self.shortDescription(),
                 'Tests shortDescription() for a method with a docstring.')
 
+    @unittest.skipIf(sys.flags.optimize >= 2,
+                     "Docstrings are omitted with -O2 and above")
     def testShortDescriptionWithMultiLineDocstring(self):
         """Tests shortDescription() for a method with a longer docstring.